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Re: Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

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Post by danthebaker »

thih9 wrote: post #25

I’m seeing a list of conferences, and for each a popup is saying: > Sorry, we don't currently have any offers for this event. Register your interest to be notified when something becomes available.

The current ticket giveaways are all listed here... https://www.tech.tickets/?view=offers.

For the events that get a lot of interest, I approach the organisers for discount codes and to see if they will donate tickets.

Re: Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

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Post by danthebaker »

swyx wrote: post #15

hi OP! i run the AI Engineer conference which is coming up soon and was pleasantly surprised to see this here :) HOWEVER this link: https://www.tech.tickets/event/ai-engineering-world-fair-a9a... links to the WRONG conference!!!! it is at https://ai.engineer/ and tickets are at https://ti.to/software-3/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2025 discounts do exist for loyal latent.space listeners and ainews subscribers but i wont m…

So sorry for getting the wrong link. I blame my AI Agent! I've just updated this.

Good luck with the conference. If you do have any spare tickets, I'd love to run a quick giveaway. ;-)

Re: Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

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Post by danthebaker »

supportengineer wrote: post #14

I would expect it to get my location and be able to sort by the distance. And also to sort by time. So I can see the closest and the nearest.

Great idea! Why didn't I think of this?!? I'll get this added. :-D

Re: Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

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Post by al_borland »

danthebaker wrote: post #29
rubitxxx6 wrote: post #18

Relying on others to submit events seems like it could be difficult to maintain. Why not use apis to search engines to find events, then use an LLM to evaluate which need to be added, and automatically maintain a database that identifies events in various languages, then automatically uses contact information from those sites to work with those managing the events?

Thanks. The data is currently populated by scraping a bunch of sites and APIs. I added the manual 'add form' just in case my scraper missed some events.

Red Hat Summit is going on right now. I don’t see it listed. May be another source to add to the list.

https://www.redhat.com/en/summit

Re: Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

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Post by al_borland »

It would be good to be able to filter by date as well as location. I was on vacation in Denmark one year and stumbled across a tech conference. I listed to a couple talked, but had I known in advance I may have looked at what was most interesting to me and planned around it a little.

Re: Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

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Post by Y-bar »

danthebaker wrote: post #30
Y-bar wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, I am on a desktop now and why are you using a span with an event listener as a link when an would do? Want tickets?

Good question! I went this route as it prevents the default navigation behaviour for the event row (which has click handling on the parent element to navigate to an event page and this span overrides that behavior locally).

But it is not accessible, you can’t navigate with keyboard, can’t open in a new tab/window, can’t copy the link. All just because you do not like the navigation?
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